Arts Sep 10 Family speaks out against white poet who allegedly used their daughter’s Chinese name to get published Poet Michael Derrick Hudson was published in "The Best American Poetry 2015" this week under the name Yi-Fen Chou, prompting criticism in the poetry community.
Arts Sep 10 When streets signs tell you to walk, yield and stop racism An organization is harnessing the authority of street signs in New York City to urge the public to stop participating in racist systems.
Arts Sep 09 Why Salman Rushdie is probably quitting Twitter Salman Rushdie will be the first to tell you that free expression is imperative to society. But there's one way the award-winning author does not always enjoy speaking out: on Twitter.
Arts Sep 08 Why a white male poet was just published in ‘The Best American Poetry 2015’ as ‘Yi-Fen Chou’ When Michael Derrick Hudson had his poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” rejected 40 times, he decided to try a different tack. He submitted it under the name “Yi-Fen Chou.”…
Poetry Sep 07 When the people meant to protect us become our enemy Aja Monet's poem examines the "reckoning of power" in an interaction between her brother and the police.
Arts Sep 04 Why do tragic photos become iconic? A photo of a Syrian boy washed up dead on a Turkish beach has become one of the most powerful images of war. How and why do certain images come to define a global conflict in the public memory?…
Arts Sep 03 Do you know who took these photos? We don’t know who took these photos, or exactly when, or why.
Poetry Aug 31 How to write a poem about Ferguson How does a poet even begin to address what happened to Michael Brown? That’s the question at the center of “Working Title,” a piece by Mahogany Brown.